Biography Of Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Schwarzenegger whom we mainly know as Arnold is the kind of person that we can say he is not known for bodybuilding instead bodybuilding is known for him, and this is what makes him completely different than other bodybuilders.

He was born in a small village in Austria on 30 th July 1947. He had to face poverty at that time for the 2nd world war. As both of his parents were police, his childhood passed through rules and regulations. But then he had become the victim of child abusement. He used to be a mediocre student but as his sense of humor was outstanding, he started earning from the age of 13. His main weapon was his self-confidence. His father always wanted his son to be a police officer like him. But he used to dream about becoming something else. He used to dream to go to America from the age of 10. But he had no idea how he would fulfill his dream. Arnold used to love playing football. One day his coach took them to the local gym and from there today's worldwide famous bodybuilder Arnold had started his journey of bodybuilding. Soon he became addicted to bodybuilding. But his father didn't like this thing at all as there was no value of bodybuilding in Austria at that time. But watching his son's enthusiasm his father gave him permission to go to the gym only 3 days a week. But Arnold wasn't that type of boy who would stop there. He brought those gym equipments in his home and started gyming for 3 days in his home and the remaining 3 days in the gym centre. Sometimes he used to force to open the gym even on Sundays. He said that if a gym session was missed by him on any day, he couldn't stand to look at his face in front of the mirror on that day. In 1965 at the age of 18, Arnold had to go for military training because there was the rule in Austria to have mandatory military training for 1 year for every boys whose age was 18. During military training, he came to know about Mr. Europe junior level contest. But to participate in that competition he had just one way left at that time and that was to escape from the military camp. He knew that he would be punished severely for that, but his love for bodybuilding was so intense that the fear of being punished wasn't able to lock him up in the camp. He did escape from the military camp to participate in the competition. Even he didn't have the proper clothes which he needed to participate in that competition. He borrowed some clothes from someone after arriving there and participated in the competition. And in this way, he won his first bodybuilding competition of his life. After that, when he returned to the camp, he had to face humiliation as well as criticism for his recklessness. As he had broken the rule, he had to spend 7 days in jail. But for his boldness, he got the designation of "best build man". And from this point, he started to become famous in Europe. 

But his dreams were not limited to only bodybuilding. Besides bodybuilding, he also loved watching movies and his dream was to act in Hollywood movies. But when he gave an audition for that, he was rejected several times for his extra muscular body as bodybuilding was not that much popular in Hollywood at that time. Arnold became frustrated getting rejections again and again. At that time, he used to consider Reg Park, Steve Reeves as his inspiration. They were established star in Hollywood inspite of being bodybuilder. He noticed that they became superstars though they were bodybuilders. So why couldn't he become a superstar? In 1966 at the age of 19, Arnold decided to participate in Mr. Universe competition. So he went to London soon. He became second in that competition and from that competition he got noticed by Charles Bennett who was judge in that competition. Charles liked him because of his excellent body at that young age and for his endless enthusiasm regarding bodybuilding. As a result, Charles took him to his home and started to train him personally. At that time during his training, Arnold met his idol Reg Park there. After 1 year, Arnold again participated in Mr. Universe and finally, he won the amateur level competition. For becoming Mr.Universe at that young age, his identity spreaded throughout the world. Arnold started to become famous as one of the greatest bodybuilders. Though he had fulfilled his dream to become a bodybuilder, he wasn't able to fulfill his dream to become a superstar even then. After this, he again started giving audition for Hollywood movies. But this time he again got rejected as he couldn't speak English fluently. His mother tongue was German and so he used a German accent in many English pronunciation. He again became upset for being rejected so many times. But he never accepted defeat and so he started getting help from magazines and books and started to practice to speak in English. Besides these, he made a world record at that time by becoming the youngest Mr. Olympia at the age of 23. In 1973, he got his first chance to work in a Hollywood movie named "The Long Goodbye". Though he acted in this movie, he had no dialogue. But for making his accent better day by day he finally got chances to act in various Hollywood movies. In 1984, the character played by him in the movie "the terminator" was loved by everyone so much that his fame spreaded worldwide and the movie also became very much popular in a very short time. After that, he became governor of California in 2003. In 2011, a museum was opened dedicating his life in his childhood home. If someone is really passionate about bodybuilding, then according to me Arnold is the biggest inspiration for that person. 

If you want, you can read his autobiography book named "total recall".